Cindy Fair, associate professor of human services; Andi Metts, assistant professor of mathematics; and Amanda Tapler, lecturer in health education, have had their proposal selected for the project, which is sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR).

The workshops will provide an introduction to a public health perspective on liberal learning and give faculty the opportunity to explore the curricular frameworks for three recommended public health courses.

Fair, Metts and Tapler will participate in a February 2008 workshop during the APTR conference in Austin, Texas.

Beedle, Lauren Cash, and Amanda Royce-Tolland, 2005 graduates in exercise/sports science, published a study in the fall, 2005 North Carolina Journal. The title of the study was “High fit vs. moderately fit college women on selected health measures.”

He also presented a paper at the annual convention of the North Carolina Alliance for Athletics, Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance in Greensboro on Nov. 16. The title was “Use of smoked marijuana, oral THC, and cannabis-based medicinal extracts in treating selected diseases.”

Chambers told the audience of approximately 100 prospective students their intellect and spirit of service are desperately needed in the legal profession today.

“What do you tell the poor, the uneducated, the minorities?” Chambers said. “I’m sorry, there’s nobody who wants to take your case? What do we do for the hundreds, thousands of parents and children who are begging for assistance?”

One of the nation’s most celebrated school desegregation attorneys, Chambers was inspired to become a lawyers after his father was unable to find a lawyer in North Carolina who would help him collect a debt from a white man. It took years, Chambers said, before he began to see others in the profession who shared his skin color.

“When I started, we didn’t have any minority judges, and we didn’t have any dreams that we were going to get any,” Chambers said.

Chambers played a major role in Swann v. Charlotte/Mecklenburg Board of Education, the 1971 case that eventually made Charlotte a national leader in school desegregation. He urged students to set high aspirations for themselves and then set out to achieve their goals.

“Don’t ever sell yourself short or think that you can’t do it,” Chambers said. “Look at those who are doing it and those who have done it.”

Diversity Day, designed primarily for minority students considering law school, included panel presentations from practicing attorneys, judges and current law school students. Prospective students had a chance to visit with representatives from every North Carolina law school and learn about the variety of scholarship and financial aid packages available to law students.

“It was exciting to see so many students who are thinking about law school as an option after college,” said Sharon Gaskin, assistant dean for admissions at 黑料不打烊 law. “We’re especially grateful to the judges, attorneys, law students and faculty who took time out of their busy schedules to share their insights with these prospective law students.”

Panelists who participated are listed below:

Judicial Panel
• Hon. L. Todd Burke, Superior Court Judge, 21st District
• Hon. Denise S. Hartsfield, District Court Judge, 21st District
• Hon. Patrice A. Hinnant, District Court Judge, 18th District
• Hon. A. Leon Stanback, Jr., Superior Court Judge, 14th District
• Hon. Teresa A. Vincent, District Court Judge, 18th District
Moderator: Professor Faith Rivers, 黑料不打烊 School of Law

Attorney Panel
• Mark Cummings, Gray Johnson Blackmon Lee & Lawson
• Kenneth A. Free, Jr., Knight & Free, PLLC
• Kimberly Bullock Gatling, Smith Moore LLP
• Angela Liverman, Guilford County Deputy Attorney
• Susan Yu O’Hale, Assistant District Attorney, 18th District
• Kelly Thompson, Assistant District Attorney, 18th District
• Lisa Johnson Tonkins, Assistant District Attorney, 18th District
Moderator: Charles Blackmon, Gray Johnson Blackmon Lee & Lawson

Law Student Panel
• Taren Greenidge, Duke Law, Class of 2010
• David Morrow, 黑料不打烊 Law, Class of 2010
• George Scott, Charlotte Law, Class of 2009
• Vanessa Williams, North Carolina Central Law, Class of 2009
• Ada Wilson, University of North Carolina Law, Class of 2010
Moderator: Nichelle Harrison, 黑料不打烊 Law, Class of 2009

James Willard was a rising sophomore and student in 黑料不打烊’s School of Communications at the time of his death. A graduate of Dinwiddie High School in Dinwiddie, Va., James was a parliamentarian and member of the executive board of the Student Council Association and editor-in-chief of the yearbook during his senior year in high school. He was inducted into the National Honor Society, Who’s Who Among American High School Students, the National Honor Roll, and received a service award from the Student Organization for Developing Attitudes. A gifted writer, James worked as a youth correspondent for the Progress Index and the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

The first recipient of the scholarship is Nicole Schaefer, a senior who is majoring in corporate communications.

For more information about the scholarship, or to contribute to the scholarship fund, please contact Rhonda Owen in the Office of Institutional Advancement at (336) 278-7444.

UPDATE for JANUARY 22, 2009: Rhonda Owen is no longer with 黑料不打烊. For more information about the scholarship, contact Jamie Killorin or Sara Peterson toll free at (877) 784-3566.

Morgan was cited for her work in a number of experiential education activities. In addition to connecting her courses in public administration to governmental and nonprofit organizations through course-based service learning, she has developed community-based research and transition-to-work components in her senior seminar course. For several years, she has led a Winter Term study abroad course that includes meetings with European Union officials and business leaders in at least four European countries.

More recently, Morgan has focused on the methods former parts of the Soviet Union are using to teach public policy and administration in a new, more fluid political environment. She has facilitated a student exchange program with the U.S. State Department that brings a Eurasian student to 黑料不打烊 each year, with the requirement that the student must take at least one service learning course and pursue an internship in the local community.

As a result of her Fulbright Scholarship in 2005, Morgan established internship opportunities in Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine and the Russian Federation, taking the first group of 黑料不打烊 students to Lithuania for international internships in the summer of 2006. Morgan was also recognized by NSEE for presentations at several conferences in Russia and Europe on the role of experiential education in the training of public servants.

Harvard’s Institute of Politics’ three key registration and absentee voting improvement recommendations, as presented to NASS, are:

1) Rescue “Marooned” Voters. Current law in five states – Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, and Tennessee – require voter identification safeguards far more stringent than required by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), which are stranding “marooned” voters away at school. First-time registered voters in these five states intending to vote by absentee ballot – but who do not register to vote in person – are required to vote in person back home. These requirements especially impact college students, who often register by mail or at a registration drive, rather than in person. Consequently, students away at school are forced to choose between traveling home to vote in person – or being shut out from voting in their home state. Voters are also being “marooned” by the multiplicity of voting deadlines. Due to numerous and confusing registration and absentee ballot deadline dates across the country, many college students are missing the opportunity to vote back home where they want to (CIRCLE post-election polling showed 78% of college students registered to vote in their home state said they “preferred” to be registered there). Recommendations on rescuing “marooned” voters:

• Eliminate these identification requirements for the first-time voter, and instead mirror federal HAVA identification requirements so all registered voters can vote by absentee ballot that choose to
  
• Make deadlines for absentee ballot applications and submissions uniform nationwide. Implementing identical deadlines in every state to request and submit absentee ballots – the first and third Tuesdays in October respectively, for example – would help eliminate confusion and missed deadlines by voters who plan to vote by absentee ballot.

2) Make the absentee ballot application and submission process clearer. Many absentee ballot voters mistakenly believe that by submitting a voter registration form, they are also officially requesting an absentee ballot – unaware that a separate form is required to do so. In addition, uncertainty by the voter over application and submission deadlines, as well as when a voter can expect to receive the ballot, add to voter confusion. Recommendations on making the absentee ballot process clearer:

• Add a disclaimer to voter registration forms indicating a separate form is required to request an absentee ballot; or
  
• Add a “check box” on registration forms to request an absentee ballot, thereby eliminating the need for a separate form
  
• Also, make voter education sections of state election websites easy to use, and include voter information targeted toward students. Although some states already provide some of the following, voter confusion could be curtailed if voter education websites from all 50 states each included: detailed information on the absentee ballot voting process (including identification requirements), application and submission deadlines, downloadable absentee ballot application forms that can be completed online, frequently asked questions, and a ballot application tracking system.

3) Provide a solution for the overwhelmed system. Complex voting rules that vary from state to state, an ever-mobile youth population, and increasing younger voter turnout nationwide are causing record numbers of voter registrations, absentee ballot applications, and voter questions that are overwhelming state and local offices. Recommendations to help fix the overwhelmed voting system:

• Create a national student/absentee ballot application helpdesk and permanent website, with staffing from August to November during an election year. The website could offer an interactive State-by-State Guide to Absentee Voting (similar to the IOP’s 2004 guide, available in the voter education section of www.iop.harvard.edu) and a collection of “frequently asked questions.” Secretaries of State could also promote a singular national email address and toll-free number for voter questions.

“We are encouraged by the high number of younger voters in the 2004 elections, but roadblocks still exist which complicate the voting process for youth – particularly college students and others who vote by absentee ballot,” said IOP Director Philip Sharp. “We must improve and simplify registration and absentee voting procedures to help keep youth political participation high and to nurture good habits of citizenship in our nation’s young people.”

Hiring the right people is crucial to the success of any organization, McElveen-Hunter said, and there is one trait she always looks for when hiring someone.

“If somebody is passionate, if they really, deeply care, then they’ll do whatever it takes to make it happen. Do they really, deeply care? That’s what I’m looking for in people.”

McElveen-Hunter became the first woman to lead the Red Cross when she was appointed chairman by President Bush in 2004. She led the organization through difficult times after it was overwhelmed by four Florida hurricanes that year, the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. The experience tested her leadership skills as the Red Cross board consolidated, going from 50 members to less than half that number. Throughout that difficult process, she said it was important for her to listen, another key component of leadership.

“Crisis creates an opportunity for change,” McElveen-Hunter said. “I made sure I listened during that time and heard what people were telling me. An organization’s success, or lack thereof, has everything to do with leadership. Leadership filters down a lot faster than it filters up.”

McElveen-Hunter has championed the cause of women and children through her work as ambassador and also with the Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity. “When you visit refugee camps in Darfur, or homeless shelters in this country, who do you see? Mostly women and children. I’m passionate about helping women and children, because they are the ones who are most often impacted by poverty.”

She advised law students to seek opportunities to develop leadership skills outside their normal circle of associates. “Getting involved in organizations that are not in the realm of where you work is important,” McElveen-Hunter said. “I would tell you to get in a leadership role, and associate yourself with people who take leadership roles.”

McElveen-Hunter told the audience of a friend who says the two most important days in a person’s life “are the day you’re born and the day you understand why. For me, the Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity are why. I encourage all of you to find the why in your lives.”

The Bryan Leadership Lecture Series will continue at noon, Friday, March 7, at The Empire Room in Greensboro. Jim Melvin, president of the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation and former mayor of Greensboro, will be the featured guest.

If you plan to attend, please RSVP by Wednesday, May 14 at lawreservations@elon.edu or by calling (336) 279-9275. Please specify that you will attend the May 16 Open House and indicate the number of people attending and their names. We look forward to seeing you then.

for directions to the school, located in downtown Greensboro, N.C.